1. Absences
Please text your child’s
absence to
0272542430
State:
Name,
Room Number
Reason for absence.
Term 3—2014 No.11
P R I N C I P A L ’ S R A M B L E
Next Newsletter:
6 August 2014
Remember:
School Hours:
8:45 am to 2:45pmOur Mission:
Developing Confident, Resourceful
Life-Long Learners.
WHAT’ S HAPPENING:
July
25 Dreamweaver Visit
(Kindly funded by ILT)
30 BOT Meeting
August
7 Teacher Only Day—Staff
at a course
11 Moffett Cup—Tokanui
15 Postponement Moffett
Cup
20 BOT Meeting
September
15-19 Book Fair
20 Tisbury School Polling
Place for General Election
If you live within our
school zone and have
preschoolers or know of
any that are intending
coming to Tisbury
School please let the
office know.
SGHS—Open Day
Thursday 31 July
4.00pm-7.30pm
[To give away 4
burner bbq, contact
the office]
Focus :
Key Competency
Participating &
Contributing
Value : Striving
Meaning:
―Aiming high to succeed‖
Kia Ora, Talofa and Welcome back to Term 3 (10 Week term).
Term 3 - under the 2014 learning theme of “Keeping Safe” - this term is about looking
at how we can keep the waterways our classrooms are named after safe for the future,
ie The Kingswell Creek, Waituna Lagoon, The Oreti and Mataura Rivers and Awarua
Bay. This term has science and social science as its core for student learning. If you
have information that your child could bring to school about their water way, please feel
free to send it along - or contact the classroom teacher and share your knowledge.
Term 3 will also see our Choir continue with their practices, Kapa Haka perform at
Polyfest for the first time and of course, there is also Moffett Cup happening during
week 4.
Community Consultation: On Wednesday 30 July 2014 at 2:00pm, we would like to
invite all our Maori, Pasifika and families of our Kapa Haka Group to a pre Polyfest Per-
formance. This has a twofold purpose, 1) to provide an opportunity for our Kapa Haka
Group to perform in front of an audience before attending the Polyfest Day; and 2) to
consult with our Maori and Pasifika Community. Following the Kapa Haka performance
there will be an afternoon tea.
The Board have invited Lester Dean from the Pacific Island Community Trust and a
representative from the Waihopai Runaka to assist with the consultation. The consulta-
tion consists of three questions:
1) What is Tisbury School Doing Well for our Maori and Pasifika Students;
2) What is Tisbury School Not Doing So Well for our Maori and Pasifika Students;
3) What can Tisbury School, with your help, do to address the things we aren’t doing so
well?
The Board would really like to see as many of our Maori and Pasifika families repre-
sented - so please put this date in your diary.
School Uniform: This is now available at: UniformNZ, Hangar 1 82 Airport Avenue
Phone 218 9152 or visit the website http://tisbury.uniformnz.com
Remember - School Uniforms are voluntary for the remainder of 2014 - but become
compulsory in 2015 for years 5 down, and 2016 for all students - this includes a sunhat.
MOFFETT CUP:
Watch out for details of this coming event. I know Mrs Warnock has been organising
the teams and transport, and that practices will be happening very soon.
Kia Kaha
Andrea and Staff
Duffy Assembly Saying from Term 2:
Power is knowledge, knowledge is power - direct your energies into positive powers.
TERM 2 HOUSE POINTS:
WHERO : 4,962 Well done Whero - I know you enjoyed your extra half hour play.
KOWHAI : 4,178 These points are held over until Term 4 when Terms 2/3/4
KIKORANGI : 3,859 points will be tallied to determine the
KAKARIKI : 4,102 the winning house.
TISBURY

2. ENCOURAGING YOUR CHILD AT HOME : WITH
WRITING:
Have pens, colouring pencils, crayons and scrap
paper available so your children can write, make
cards for parents, grandparents, friends. Get your
child to write about their favourite food or game, and
send it along to school to share with their teacher or
even Mrs Joyce.
The more you write the better you get at writing.
Page 2
Health & Safety
Measles—travelling?
There are outbreaks in
places like Australia,
Europe, UK, Africa.
Before you travel check
your vaccinations.
Continue to check chil-
dren's hair for signs
of lice, this is an on-
going problem.
Fish n Chips
Term 3 Dates
4
September
Canteen
Sausage
Rolls are
0.50c as
they are a
smaller
version
Tisbury School’s
Assemblies
MONDAYS : 2:15pm
All Welcome
2014 TERM DATES
Term 1: 28 January –17 April
Term 2: 5 May—4 July
Term 3 :21 July 26 September
Term 4 :13 October—TBA
Sausage
Sizzle
Term 3 Dates
21 August
Remember—
No Noodles
at school.
Heat-Ups are
to go in the
pie warmer
only.
Tisbury Kids
Can Do Any-
thing – Watch
Us Try!
Certificate Winners
WHAT’S FOR DINNER:
Tisbury School’s PTA created a Cookbook a few years ago - over the holidays Mrs Joyce had
some fun making some of the wonderful recipes, and thought maybe it would be great to
share one each newsletter for Term 3:
The first: French Bread Stick Stuffing
1½ containers cream cheese 1 green pepper
100g salami 2 spring onions
3 gherkins ground black pepper
Chop up salami, gherkins, green pepper and spring onions. Mix together with cream cheese,
and black pepper, cut French stick in half, remove some bread and stuff with the filling. Wrap
in gladwrap. Slice when ready to serve. Best made day before.
GARDEN CLUB:
The staff would like to see this up and running again, and again hope there is someone out
there who could help us - even once a week during lunch time. If you are able to help, please
phone Mrs Joyce, she would love to hear from you.
To help develop the garden further, we are applying to the Invercargill Licensing Trust for help
in building a fence, bark-chip the area, and purchasing a tool box to keep our gardening tools
close by. Hopefully, we will be lucky enough to get this phase underway before the end of the
year.
BOOK FAIR: Staff appreciate that this is a long way off - however, just getting everyone pre-
pared - Tisbury School is to have a Book Fair during the week of 15 to 19 September. The
theme of the book week is “Reading with Bugs” - the staff thought that it would be a lot of fun
to have a week centered around books about bugs, and then students can have a dress-up
day on the Friday - where they can dress as their favourite Book Bug. Books will be available
to purchase during this week - more information as the term goes on about this event.
DREAMWEAVER: Again,
this year, on Friday, we
are very lucky to have Liz
Miller visit Tisbury School
sharing her story telling
magic with our students.
Ms Miller is sponsored by
the Invercargill Licensing
Trust, through the Literacy
Association, to ensure
Invercargill children
receive the experience of
a story teller.
Kapa Haka—if anyone is available to help
with practices on Wednesday’s at 12.45pm
please contact Joy Maheno
Polyfest Festival is on 26 –29 August 2014
Tisbury Students looking wonderful in their new
uniform